Dolphin 7.1.1 Problem Using PHP 5.3

Hi.

I have the Dolphin 7.1.1 working with PHP 5.2.x . This is the php used in the moment of my Dolphin installation and this the version that Dolphin is working well. Today I tried to migrate to PHP 5.3 and I had some problems:

ADMINISTRATION
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Sao_Paulo' for 'BRT/-3.0/no DST' instead in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.php on line 89

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Sao_Paulo' for 'BRT/-3.0/no DST' instead in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.php on line 90

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.php:89) in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolSession.php on line 53

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.php:89) in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/admin_design.inc.php on line 47


EVENTS BLOCK IN THE HOMEPAGE
Warning: mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Sao_Paulo' for 'BRT/-3.0/no DST' instead in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolTemplate.php on line 298


FOOTER
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Sao_Paulo' for 'BRT/-3.0/no DST' instead in /home/aaa/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolTemplate.php on line 782

QUESTION: Should I do anything more than this to work with PHP 5.3.x?

I use the original ALT template and the Hosting Tools tell me that I should work with PHP 5.3.x.

Thanks.

Mauro.

You need to add another option to your php.ini file.

date.timezone = "America/New_York"

https://www.google.com/search?q=php+date.timezone

Replace America/New_York with your proper time zone. Newer versions of php require you to specifically configure php to your time zone.

And it was not necessary to update to 5.3 It will say it's outdated on 5.3 as well for any version less than the current which is 5.3.18. The message displayed in admin is as follows. your PHP version is probably outdated, upgrade to the latest 5.3.18 maybe required

The key words here are maybe required. It does not say it is absolutely required.

Thanks Deano.

So this means that I wouldn´t worry about this upgrade? Could the upgrade result any security and velocity improvement?

Thanks.

Mauro.

Most likely. PHP is always fixing issues. As for what has been fixed or improved i can't tell you. You would have to go though all of the release notes. There will be hundreds of them.

Thanks Deano.

Mauro.

I was having same problem, I add to php.ini [date.timezone = "America/New_York";] now everything back to normal.

Thank you deano92964 

 Upgrading to the latest stable version is in most cases desirable.

If I were you I would be more worried about the version of Dolphin I am running. Dolphin v7.1.4 has many improvements and also security fixes that are not part of Dolphin v7.1.1.

Well considering this topic is about a year and a half old, the version of dolphin he was running at the time may have been about right.